How large is 150 petabytes?

[Alex3213]

I thought you were asking the question, and I was going to answer it and also be surprised that you didn't know yourself

I was thinking exactly the same

Quite fascinating though, some nice comparisons.

[Catchy]

It doesn't say that.

It says there was 150pb of data to move from hotmail to outlook - as in EVERY users stuff

My bad! Thought it seemed a bit strange

[Chippiewill]

Been used for years in all sorts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Byte's aren't metric

[AgnesIO]

My bad! Thought it seemed a bit strange

Aha indeed :L

If they were giving users space they would be better saying 150,000,000 gigabytes to every user (afterall, no not geeks would have a clue about petabytes aha )

[Catchy]

Aha indeed :L

If they were giving users space they would be better saying 150,000,000 gigabytes to every user (afterall, no not geeks would have a clue about petabytes aha )

this would be @scottish;'s dream

[Kardan]

Byte's aren't metric

I was just on about the prefix peta, not bytes

[Chippiewill]

I was just on about the prefix peta, not bytes

Seems a bit silly to use something which usually stands for 10^15 to mean 1024^5.

[Mr-Trainor]

Had never even heard of petabytes until now .

[Daltron]

wow

[Bradley.]

WELL ISN'T THAT AMAZING!!